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theatlantic.com November 13, 2018
Amazon’s HQ2 Will Only Worsen America’s ‘Great Divergence’

On the long list of things that New York City desperately needs—money for the subway, for affordable housing, for schools and public hospitals and universal pre-K—more high-paying, high-skilled jobs is not at the top of the list.
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theatlantic.com November 11, 2018
The Problem With Feedback

After a recent Uber ride, I hesitated between offering the four-star rating that captured my adequate ride and the five-star rating that I knew the driver expected. Eventually I tapped five stars and closed out of the app, relieved to be done with this tiny moral quandary.
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stratechery.com November 12, 2018
The Experience Economy

The phrase “The Experience Economy”, like the worst sort of corporate speak, sounds less like a viable business plan than it does a discarded slogan for Las Vegas. Still, that was the explanation for SAP’s $8 billion acquisition for Qualtrics just days before the latter was set to IPO.
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nytimes.com November 11, 2018
Rocket Lab’s Modest Launch Is Giant Leap for Small Rocket Business

The company’s Electron rocket carried a batch of small commercial satellites from a launchpad in New Zealand, a harbinger of a major transformation to the space business.
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medium.com November 12, 2018
Delivering Meaning with Previews on Web

As the Netflix catalog of films and series continues to grow, it becomes more challenging to present members with enough information to decide what to watch.
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theverge.com November 13, 2018
AI software helped NASA dream up this spider-like interplanetary lander

Using an AI design process, engineers at software company Autodesk and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory came up with a new interplanetary lander concept that could explore distant moons like Europa and Enceladus.
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arstechnica.com November 12, 2018
Behind-the-scenes audio from Apollo 11 mission made public for first time

When Neil Armstrong took his legendary first steps on the Moon on July 20, 1969, it defined a generation.
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engadget.com November 13, 2018
NASA and Autodesk are testing new ways to design interplanetary landers

Autodesk, the software company behind AutoCAD, has teamed up with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to look at news ways to create an interplanetary lander that could potentially touch down on the moons of Saturn or Jupiter.
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theverge.com November 11, 2018
Teaching robots body language offers common ground for humans and machines

Anyone who’s been up close and personal with an industrial robot will tell you that these machines have an uncanny, almost unsettling presence.
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theatlantic.com November 13, 2018
Smoke From California’s Fires Is Harming Its Most Vulnerable

The deadliest fire in California’s history continues to burn, and San Francisco is filled with smoke and ash.
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youtube.com June 7, 2017
Your Whole Wallet In One Card

This giant box just showed up... https://youtu.be/R4vx_GWWiTA?list=PL7...Fuze Card - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fu...Is the Fuze card the future of payments?FOLLOW ME IN THESE PLACES FOR UPDATESTwitter - http://twitter.com/unboxtherapyFacebook - http://facebook.com/lewis.hilsentegerInstagram
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slate.com January 4, 2016
Who Controls Your Facebook Feed

Every time you open Facebook, one of the world’s most influential, controversial, and misunderstood algorithms springs into action.
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bamboo.wacom.com December 19, 2015
Notes to Our Future Selves: Bamboo Spark and Calm Technology

Amber Case has been deeply integrated in technology since her first coding job at 14 years old. Today, she is known for many things: cyborg anthropologist, writer, speaker, product developer and author.
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mashable.com May 19, 2012
6 Ways to Get a Tech Job Without a Tech Degree

Aaron Shapiro is CEO of Huge, a global digital agency based in Brooklyn, and author of Users Not Customers. He has spent more than a decade as a technology entrepreneur, venture capitalist and management consultant. Jobs in tech are stronger than ever.
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newyorker.com February 21, 2014
The Problem with Easy Technology

In the history of marketing, there’s a classic tale that centers on the humble cake mix. During the nineteen-fifties, there were differences of opinion over how “instant” powdered cake mixes should be, and, in particular, over whether adding an egg ought to be part of the process.
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e-flux.com December 19, 2016
How To Kill People: A Problem of Design

I saw the future. It was empty. In his 1963 film “How to Kill People” designer George Nelson argues that killing is a matter of design, next to fashion and homemaking. Nelson states that design is crucial in improving both the form and function of weapons.
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techcrunch.com December 14, 2017
There’s an implosion of early-stage VC funding, and no one’s talking about it

Amid record amounts of capital raised by VCs worldwide, and a sharp rise in the number of private “unicorns” valued at $1 billion-plus, there has been a quiet, barely noticed implosion in early-stage VC activity worldwide. The chart below is dramatic, and accurate.
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hbr.org March 30, 2017
How to Win with Automation (Hint: It’s Not Chasing Efficiency)

In 1900, 30 million people in the United States were farmers. By 1990 that number had fallen to under 3 million even as the population more than tripled. So, in a matter of speaking, 90% of American agriculture workers lost their jobs, mostly due to automation.
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mashable.com August 2, 2015
Inside the sad, expensive failure of Google+

Create a social network or risk everything. That was the original pitch for Google's Facebook rival, Google+, a refrain hammered over and over by the social network's chief architect, Vic Gundotra, in meetings with the company's top brass.
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digg.com March 12, 2017
The Story Of WinRAR's Neverending 40-Day Trial

18 diggs Internet Curious Video Technology If you've ever used WinRAR past its trial period (and you probably have), maybe you thought it was supposed to stop working after 40 days. Not so.
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businessinsider.com April 15, 2017
There's a dark secret at the heart of artificial intelligence: no one really understands how it works

Last year, a strange self-driving car was released onto the quiet roads of Monmouth County, New Jersey.
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medium.com September 17, 2015
131 Actionable Ideas from Ten Books I Wish I Had Read Ages Ago

I highly recommend you read these books and form your own takes. But if you only have 45–90 seconds time blocks, here is a list of times to go through the actionable ideas from each book. · Strive to have a growth mindset. It will allow you to develop and improve your abilities.
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buzzfeed.com April 1, 2015
I Followed My Stolen iPhone Across The World, Became A Celebrity In China, And Found A Friend For Life

I've broken this story up into three chapters. It should never have gone this far, but the internet works in mysterious ways. None of this should have ever happened. It makes absolutely no sense at all. It's truly crazy.
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technologyreview.com January 13, 2017
Mathematical Model Reveals the Patterns of How Innovations Arise

Innovation is one of the driving forces in our world. The constant creation of new ideas and their transformation into technologies and products forms a powerful cornerstone for 21st century society.
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theatlantic.com February 23, 2017
Why Nothing Works Anymore

“No… it’s a magic potty,” my daughter used to lament, age 3 or so, before refusing to use a public restroom stall with an automatic-flush toilet. As a small person, she was accustomed to the infrared sensor detecting erratic motion at the top of her head and violently flushing beneath her.
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tomtunguz.com January 27, 2017
The Software Startup Sectors Raising the Most Capital in 2017

Over the last seven years, software startup investing has changed quite a bit. In 2010, classic SaaS was booming, the benefits of a subscription model were finally becoming clear to the public markets and the mass-market.
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entrepreneur.com May 26, 2015
The Ultimate Guide to Learning Anything Faster

If only. For many of us, there are more things we want to learn than we have time for. And as information becomes more readily accessible online, the number of things we want to learn has only increased. That means that the only variable we can actually control is the time we spend learning them.
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waitbutwhy.com May 7, 2015
Elon Musk: The World’s Raddest Man

This is Part 1 of a four-part series on Elon Musk’s companies. Last month, I got a surprising phone call.
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recode.net June 15, 2017
Can your CTO still code?

Many chief technology officers study technology, consider different architectures and challenge their team to deliver products and services. The problem with this approach is that many CTOs today no longer maintain application development proficiencies.
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lifehacker.com
This Page Lets You Disable a Lot of Google's Activity Tracking

Google tracks a lot of your data. If you’re comfortable with that, it can make your life a little easier. If you’re not, it can be a pain to figure out how to turn it off. Fortunately, there’s one settings page where you can disable a lot of it.
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theatlantic.com February 17, 2017
The Mark Zuckerberg Manifesto Is a Blueprint for Destroying Journalism

It’s not that Mark Zuckerberg set out to dismantle the news business when he founded Facebook 13 years ago. Yet news organizations are perhaps the biggest casualty of the world Zuckerberg built. There’s reason to believe things are going to get worse.
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cjr.org October 4, 2016
Toward a Constructive Technology Criticism

“This is a work of criticism. If it were literary criticism, everyone would immediately understand the underlying purpose is positive.
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snmaynard.com October 17, 2012
Things I wish I knew about MongoDB a year ago

I’ve used MongoDB for over a year at scale at both Heyzap and Bugsnag and I’ve found it to be a very capable database. As with all databases, there are some gotchas, and here is a summary of the things I wish someone had told me earlier.
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theguardian.com November 7, 2015
Lost at sea: the man who vanished for 14 months

As they motored across the lagoon in the Marshall Islands, deep in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the policemen stared at the specimen laid out on the deck before them. There was no hiding the fact that this man had been at sea for a considerable time. His hair was matted upwards like a shrub.
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fastcompany.com July 7, 2017
Nest Founder: “I Wake Up In Cold Sweats Thinking, What Did We Bring To The World?”

Tony Fadell’s wife likes to remind him when their three children’s eyes are glued to their screens that it’s at least partly his fault. Hard to argue.
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medium.com January 3, 2015
A Teenager’s View on Social Media

I read technology articles quite often and see plenty of authors attempt to dissect or describe the teenage audience, especially in regards to social media. However, I have yet to see a teenager contribute their voice to this discussion. This is where I would like to provide my own humble opinion.
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rework.withgoogle.com November 17, 2015
The five keys to a successful Google team

Update: Check out the re:Work guide Understand team effectiveness for the full story on Google's team effectiveness research as well as tools to help teams foster psychological safety.
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vox.com June 3, 2015
I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me

I'm a professor at a midsize state school. I have been teaching college classes for nine years now. I have won (minor) teaching awards, studied pedagogy extensively, and almost always score highly on my student evaluations.
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economist.com April 29, 2017
Technology firms and the office of the future

FROM the 62nd floor of Salesforce Tower, 920 feet above the ground, San Francisco’s monuments look piddling. The Bay Bridge, Coit Tower and Palace of Fine Arts are dwarfed by the steel-and-glass headquarters that will house the software company when it is completed later this year.
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bloomberg.com June 11, 2015
CODE?|

Software has been around since the 1940s. Which means that people have been faking their way through meetings about software, and the code that builds it, for generations.
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anildash.com April 8, 2018
12 Things Everyone Should Understand About Tech

Tech is more important than ever, deeply affecting culture, politics and society. Given all the time we spend with our gadgets and apps, it’s essential to understand the principles that determine how tech affects our lives.
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waitbutwhy.com September 28, 2016
SpaceX’s Big Fucking Rocket – The Full Story

Yesterday, Elon Musk got on stage at the 2016 International Astronautical Congress and unveiled the first real details about the big fucking rocket they’re making.
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blog.feedly.com March 14, 2013
Tips for Google Reader users migrating to feedly

October 2017 update: We have come a long way since March 2013. Personalization has emerged as one of the defining traits that our community loves about Feedly. So we have published a new tutorial to showcase our recommendations for personalizing your Feedly experience.
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medium.com February 3, 2015
One Man’s Quest to Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake

On a Friday in July 2012, two employees of the Wikimedia Foundation gave a talk at Wikimania, their organization’s annual conference.
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theverge.com November 17, 2016
Perfecting your digital assistant

Your company exists, in part, because mobile devices enable us to demand consumer-quality experiences in our work software. Five years from now-ish, how close will we be to parity between work and consumer software? Will we even recognize a distinction ultimately between these two things?
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technologyreview.com October 10, 2017
First Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing the Nature of Society

Not so long ago, nobody met a partner online. Then, in the 1990s, came the first dating websites. Match.com went live in 1995. A new wave of dating websites, such as OKCupid, emerged in the early 2000s. And the 2012 arrival of Tinder changed dating even further.
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theguardian.com April 18, 2016
They called it 'the worst job in the world' – my life as a Guardian moderator

A couple of years ago somebody sent me a link to a tweet. It said: “Moderating comments at the Guardian must be the worst job in the world.
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hbr.org March 7, 2017
How Safe Are Blockchains? It Depends.

Blockchain, the distributed ledger technology underlying bitcoin, may prove to be far more valuable than the currency it supports. But it’s only as valuable as it is secure.
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idlewords.com October 25, 2018
Who Will Command The Robot Armies?

When John Allsopp invited me here, I told him how excited I was discuss a topic that's been heavy on my mind: accountability in automated systems.
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fool.com January 10, 2018
The Basics of Blockchain Technology, Explained in Plain English

Historically, no asset has been a greater source of wealth creation than the stock market. Throughout its history, stocks have returned an average of 7% per year, inclusive of dividend reinvestment, and when adjusted for inflation.
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medium.com March 14, 2018
12 Things Everyone Should Understand About Tech

Technology isn’t an industry, it’s a method of transforming the culture and economics of existing systems and institutions. That can be a little bit hard to understand if we only judge tech as a set of consumer products that we purchase.
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reactionwheel.net May 27, 2016
Disruption is not a strategy

I was at a research lab to talk about commercialization. The presenter put up a slide of some exciting new technologies. The slide’s tagline said these technologies would “disrupt the biomedical industry.
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medium.com May 26, 2013
The Facebook experiment has failed. Let’s go back.

I am signed into Facebook right now. At a quick glance, the entire list of posts on the first screen are irrelevant to me. If I scrolled down I can find 4 stories I actually care about, from a list of about 30.
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neilpatel.com December 31, 2015
How to Get Google to Instantly Index Your New Website

Do you want more organic search traffic to your site? I’m willing to bet the answer is yes – we all do!
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lifehacker.com
How Can I Find Out Where an Email Really Came From?

Emails get spoofed. Sometimes, "Bill" isn't really Bill. And sometimes the fraudulent email will make it past spam filters and into your inbox. Don't get fooled. Find out the real sender by quickly analyzing your email headers. The Super Users at Stack Exchange tell you how.
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theverge.com November 8, 2016
Delivery drones will mean the end of ownership

What does a day look like five to 10 years from now? The real answer is I don’t know, and much more importantly, I don’t think anyone knows. Trying to prognosticate is a very dangerous business.
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fastcompany.com December 19, 2017
The 25 Best New Apps Of 2017

For all the talk of peak app, 2017 was a surprisingly inventive year for makers of apps and software, from the industry’s giants to intrepid startups.
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technologyreview.com August 7, 2017
First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News

Fake news and the way it spreads on social media is emerging as one of the great threats to modern society.
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washingtonpost.com July 21, 2016
Humans once opposed coffee and refrigeration. Here’s why we often hate new stuff.

Humans have a habit of stalling their own progress. From coffee to mechanical refrigeration to genetically altered food, history is littered with innovations that sparked resistance before becoming fixtures in everyday life.
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telegraph.co.uk January 9, 2003
Be lucky - it's an easy skill to learn

A decade ago, I set out to investigate luck. I wanted to examine the impact on people's lives of chance opportunities, lucky breaks and being in the right place at the right time.
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media.mit.edu December 20, 2017
Our response to "A Cryptocurrency Without a Blockchain Has Been Built to Outperform Bitcoin" – MIT Media Lab

On Friday, MIT Technology Review published an article on the cryptocurrency IOTA. The headline stated that the currency “could outperform Bitcoin.” However, we here at the MIT Media Lab have issues with the story.
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macworld.com October 31, 2013
Why (and how) I'm saying goodbye to Gmail

It was great while it lasted, but I finally broke up with Gmail.
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medium.com January 27, 2015
Hey there, we added +100 more free resources and moved to our website:

Curated on +50 tech blogs & websites such as TNW, Buffer Blog, Product Hunt, Angellist, Pickcrew, Betalist, etc. More about me here. You can also check out some of my other top articles:
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aeon.co January 24, 2018
A fault in our design

On 10 February 1853, a ship named the Charles Mallory arrived in port in Honolulu, Hawaii, having made the journey from San Francisco in only 13 days, a near-record time, particularly for a ship of its small size.
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lifehacker.com
Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks

When it comes to the Google search box, you already know the tricks: finding exact phrases matches using quotes like "so say we all" or searching a single site using site:lifehacker.com gmail.
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forbes.com February 4, 2015
The Uberpreneur: How An Uber Driver Makes $252,000 A Year

The man sitting beside me is sharing the most insightful business advice I’ve heard lately. His ideas are as unconventional as the location of our conversation. We’re not in a coffee shop or a corner office. We’re in an Uber and he’s my driver.
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medium.com August 3, 2015
Theft, Lies, and Facebook Video

I’m a professional YouTube creator. Some people think that this is some kind of joke but I have 30 employees. All of them work in the online video industry, about half of them work directly on producing videos for our educational YouTube channels. We’re a small, profitable business.
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medium.com April 20, 2014
Don’t Fuck Up the Culture

On Monday, October 21, 2013, I sent this letter to our entire team at Airbnb. I have decided to publish this in the event it is helpful to entrepreneurs building their cultures. Our next team meeting is dedicated to Core Values, which are essential to building our culture.
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forbes.com July 29, 2015
That 'Useless' Liberal Arts Degree Has Become Tech's Hottest Ticket

This story appears in the August 17, 2015 issue of Forbes. Subscribe In less than two years Slack Technologies has become one of the most glistening of tech's ten-digit "unicorn" startups, boasting 1.1 million users and a private market valuation of $2.8 billion.
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theguardian.com April 17, 2018
I was one of Facebook's first users. I shouldn't have trusted Mark Zuckerberg

Fourteen years, two months, and eight days ago, I made a mistake. Like a lot of mistakes made at the age of 20 inside a college dorm room, it involved trusting a man I shouldn’t have, and it still affects me to this day. No, Mark Zuckerberg didn’t give me herpes.
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medium.com November 14, 2014
6 links that will show you what Google knows about you

Want to find out all the things Google knows about you? Here are 6 links that will show you some of the data Google has about you. In order to serve relevant ads, Google collects data about you and creates a profile. You can control and review the information Google has on you here:
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bloomberg.com April 18, 2016
The Humans Hiding Behind the Chatbots

Amy Ingram, the artificial intelligence personal assistant from startup X.ai, sounds remarkably like a real person. The company designed her to take on the mundane tasks of scheduling meetings and e-mailing about appointments.
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plusyourbusiness.com June 8, 2013
What is Google Plus? A Complete User Guide. (Videos and Blog)

If you think Google Plus is just another social site, you are in for a big surprise. What has been created is, put simply, a phenomenal tool for human communication, and much more. But it takes you to experience it, embrace it and ‘get it’ before this realisation really comes.
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lowercasecapital.com June 3, 2015
What Twitter Can Be.

Disclaimers: 1) This is a very long read. Thinking about a company and using its product obsessively for nine years straight will do that to you. 2) My funds and I own a lot of Twitter stock. 3) I do not speak for Twitter. 4) I have no inside information about Twitter.
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adweek.com June 13, 2016
Snapchat Launches a Colossal Expansion of Its Advertising, Ushering in a New Era for the App

Imran Khan was an internet-focused investment banker at Credit Suisse, where, in September 2014, he orchestrated Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba's high-profile IPO.
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aeon.co June 6, 2018
Fast-world values

More than 40 years ago, as a young woman in Melbourne, Australia, I had a pen friend in Papua New Guinea. She lived in a coastal village, an hour’s slow boat trip from the city of Lae. I went to visit her.
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hbr.org December 1, 2015
What Is Disruptive Innovation?

The theory of disruptive innovation, introduced in these pages in 1995, has proved to be a powerful way of thinking about innovation-driven growth.
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phys.org November 10, 2016
The highlight of Google's Daydream VR is ... its controller

The best thing about Google's new virtual-reality headset isn't the headset at all. In fact, Daydream View would pale compared with Samsung's Gear VR headset were it not for Daydream's controller, a handheld device that responds to gestures and other motion.
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theatlantic.com October 2, 2017
Google and Facebook Failed Us

In the crucial early hours after the Las Vegas mass shooting, it happened again: Hoaxes, completely unverified rumors, failed witch hunts, and blatant falsehoods spread across the internet.
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theatlantic.com October 12, 2017
What Facebook Did to American Democracy

In the media world, as in so many other realms, there is a sharp discontinuity in the timeline: before the 2016 election, and after.
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qz.com October 2, 2017
Technology is destroying the most important asset in your life

Parents, teachers, and mentors all around the world have spoken these words to us, in one form of another, throughout our lives. It makes sense, too. Most of us come to realize at some point that money is a means, not an end.
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wired.com April 28, 2015
The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 1

The postman only rang once. Curtis Green was at home, greeting the morning with 64 ounces of Coca-Cola and powdered mini doughnuts. Fingers frosted synthetic white, he was startled to hear someone at the door.
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businessinsider.com April 2, 2017
The smartphone is eventually going to die, and then things are going to get really crazy

One day, not too soon — but still sooner than you think — the smartphone will all but vanish, the way beepers and fax machines did before it. Make no mistake: We're still probably at least a decade away from any kind of meaningful shift away from the smartphone.
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newyorker.com November 3, 2014
Against the Grain

Just after Labor Day, the Gluten and Allergen Free Expo stopped for a weekend at the Meadowlands Exposition Center. Each year, the event wends its way across the country like a travelling medicine show, billing itself as the largest display of gluten-free products in the United States.
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huffingtonpost.com January 23, 2017
Why Consumers Are Making Their Own Clouds

A year ago, data privacy may not have meant much to you unless you were a big business or a government entity. Chances are today your interest is already piqued at the idea of protecting your basic information from corporations who store your personal data online.
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theatlantic.com January 30, 2018
All Followers Are Fake Followers

In the summer of 2015, the game designer Bennett Foddy and I were sloshing down cocktails while waiting for prime dry-aged rib-eye steaks in Midtown Manhattan. We weren’t living large, exactly, but we did pause to assess our rising professional fortunes.
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newyorker.com May 12, 2014
The End of Food

In December of 2012, three young men were living in a claustrophobic apartment in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, working on a technology startup.
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newyorker.com October 21, 2013
Two-Hit Wonder

Jack Dorsey, the tech entrepreneur, takes the No. 1 bus to work, and he likes to catch the 7:06. It carries him nearly from one side of San Francisco to the other—down California Street almost to Market.
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